P4G Head of Partnerships Participates in Ride Across Europe to Increase Awareness about Unity for Climate Action

About

KATOWICE – December 2, 2018 -- Robyn McGuckin, P4G Head of Partnerships, cycled more than 400 kilometers last week as a member of the Moving for Climate NOW ride from Vienna to Katowice. For three of eleven days, she joined a team of more than 40 experts from across the world whose work is dedicated to urgency and unity in the global fight against climate change.

In its third year, Moving for Climate NOW aims to emphasize and extend the global agreements set forth at COP21 in Paris, in 2015. Through its progression through Europe’s rolling hills and diverse states, the ride symbolically emphasized that no one government or organization can lead the fight towards a more sustainable future. Rather, the riders and the route in concert underscored the cooperation necessary to successfully take on the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

Upon the riders’ completion of their ride at the COP24 conference, they delivered their manifesto to the United Nations Executive Secretariat for Climate Change. The document focuses on the Talanoa Dialogue, a space for conversation designed to encourage the participation of governments and civil society, with the aim of taking stock of the join work carried out so far to achieve global climate objectives. [Read More]             

McGuckin’s participation in Moving for Climate NOW acknowledged P4G’s special alignment with the team’s manifesto. P4G’s mission of becoming the world’s leading forum for public-private partnerships innovating to achieve the objectives of key sustainable development goals only further emphasized the team’s intention of emphasizing collective, international and cross-sectoral action.

To learn more about the ride and watch video summaries of each day, visit the Moving for Climate NOW website.